DATA ARCHIVE

AUTHORS: Zhukov, Yuri M. and Brandon M. Stewart
ARTICLE: "Choosing Your Neighbors: Networks of Diffusion in International Relations"
JOURNAL: International Studies Quarterly
UPDATED: January 21, 2014
CONTACT: zhukov@fas.harvard.edu, bstewart@fas.harvard.edu
http://scholar.harvard.edu/bstewart
http://scholar.harvard.edu/zhukov

Summary:
This file complements the replication archive also on Dataverse (http://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/21595).  That archive provides code for replicating the MonteCarlo experiments and analyses in the paper.  Here we provide the data and methods necessary to construct the spatial weight matrices.  

Please see the article described above for definitions and details.

Code:
GeoNeighbors.R - Code in R which demonstrates how to calculate the geographic weights matrices for each year using the included shape files and coordinates.

Data:

shapefiles - This folder has the shape files for country boundaries in each year.

nongeographicweights - This folder contains R work spaces with yearly weights matrices based on Alliance Proximity, EthnicLinguistic Group Proximity, Trade Proximity and Intergovernmental organization proximity.
